30 Charts About Developer Community

We surveyed the Keen IO Developer community to learn more about their demographics, tool preferences, and how they felt about our community. Here's what were learned in 30 charts.

Read more about our findings here: https://keen.io/blog/157583365631/what-we-learned-when-we-surveyed-our-developer

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1. Community Survey Results
2. DEMOGRAPHICS
3. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? 51% 33% 2% 8% 4% 2% South America Australia/Oceania Asia Africa Europe North America
4. WHAT IS YOUR AGE? Under 18 18-24 25-30 31-38 39-48 49-55 56-60 61+ 0 35 70 105 140
5. WHAT IS YOUR GENDER IDENTITY? Female 15.37% Male 75.31% Other 0.25% Did not respond 9.07%
6. WHAT IS YOUR RACE/ETHNICITY? Race/Ethnicity Options % of Survey Respondents Who Selected This Option African-American/Black 4.28% East Asian 6.3% Hispanic/LatinX 7.3% Middle Eastern 3.02% Native American/Alaskan Native/First Nations 0.25% Pacific Islander 0.25% South Asian 5.54% Southeast Asian 2.27% Multiracial (if desired use “Other” to provide more detail) 5.53% White 65.74% Prefer not to answer 6.05% Other 1.26% Respondents could pick multiple options. Multiracial was an option and not determined based on this behavior. ie: One might select African-American/Black, White, and not Multiracial
7. IS YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH? Out of 238 responses on this question, 55.46% said their first language was not English For those that English was not their first language, 15.9% was French, 12.12% was Spanish, 10.6% was German, 6.82% was Dutch, and 6.82% was Portuguese
8. TOP 10 INDUSTRIES 1. SaaS (Software-as-a- Service) 2. IT/Tech Consulting 3. Other 4. E-commerce/Retail 5. Finance/Banking 6. Media/Content Publishing/Journalism 7. Advertising/Adtech 8. PR/Marketing 9. Gaming 10. Not Applicable Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” response: Education
9. WHAT DO YOU IDENTIFY AS? Product/Product Management DevOps/Engineering Data/Data Engineering/Data Science Sales Marketing Executive Community Customer Service/Support People/HR Other 0 10 20 30 40 Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses were: CEO, Director, Manager
10. 27.71% NON-DEVELOPERS 72.29% DEVELOPERS
11. WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPER ARE YOU? Full-Stack Platform/backend/systems Frontend/web Database/storage Mobile Devops/networking/security Other Games/graphics 0 50 100 150 200 Respondents could pick multiple options.
12. FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS
13. WHAT NEWER TECHNOLOGIES/LANGUAGES/ TRENDS ARE YOU CURRENTLY EXCITED ABOUT? AI/Machine Learning Raspberry Pi React Bots Drones VR Go Swift Other Rust Haptic feedback None Scala 0 40 80 120 160 Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses: Serverless, GraphQL, D3, .NET, Elixer, IoT, Vue,js, Phoenix, Augmented Reality
14. WHAT LANGUAGE(S) DO YOU PROGRAM IN? Javascript HTML CSS Python Java Ruby Other C# C C++ Objective-C Scala 0 75 150 225 300 Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses: PHP, Go, Swift
15. WHAT FRAMEWORK(S) DO YOU MOST FREQUENTLY USE? Node.js Angular.js Other Ruby on Rails Bootstrap Wordpress Django .NET None Phonegap/Cordova Backbone.js Ionic Foundation Drupal Meteor Ember.js 0 35 70 105 140 Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses: React including React Native, Laravel, Flask, Symfony
16. DO YOU USE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DEVELOPER TOOLS IN PRODUCTION? Respondents could pick multiple options. No Stripe Twilio SendGrid CircleCI Shopify IBM Watson Other 0 30 60 90 120
17. DO YOU USE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CLOUD SERVICES IN PRODUCTION? Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Others”: Heroku and Digital Ocean Amazon Web Services Microsoft Cloud/Azure Google Cloud Platform No Other IBM SoftLayer 0 75 150 225 300
18. HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR DOCUMENTATION? Word clouds are very 90’s, but this one is super helpful.
19. OPEN SOURCE
20. CONTRIBUTE TO AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT 52.64%
21. Out of those who identified as female, 31.15% contribute to an open source project Out of those who identified as male, 57.53% contribute to an open source project
22. HOW WELCOME DO YOU FEEL IN OUR COMMUNITY?
23. AWARE OF THE KEEN IO COMMUNITY CODE OF CONDUCT 18.89%
24. DO YOU FEEL WELCOME IN THE KEEN IO COMMUNITY? Some of the “Other” responses were: Did not know about it, have not explored it, don’t care, have not participated, have not tried to join, and have not spend much time with it Other 25% No 5% Yes 71%
25. WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WELCOME IN THE KEEN COMMUNITY? Some ideas included: • Being more open • Communicate what others are doing with Keen to build a sense of community
26. AWARE OF THE KEEN IO COMMUNITY SLACK 28.21%
27. COMMUNITY EVENTS
28. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO AN EVENT AT KEEN IO OR HOSTED BY KEEN IO? 1% 83% 16% Yes No Did not answer
29. DO YOU ATTEND DEVELOPER CONFERENCES? Some of the respondents’ favorite conferences were: PyCon, Google I/O, WWDC, Microsoft Build, RubyConf, AWS Reinvent, Velocity, OSCON, various open source, local JS, and API focused conferences Often 9% Sometimes 39% Occasionally 28% Never 24%
30. DO YOU ATTEND DEVELOPER MEETUPS? Some of the respondents’ favorite meetups were: Women Who Code, JS, Ruby, React, Python, Node (including Nodeschool), and Data meetups Many mentioned local meetups all over the world Often 14% Sometimes 28% Occasionally 36% Never 22%
31. WHAT KINDS OF EVENTS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE KEEN HOST MORE OF? Some responses included: • more meetups • technically oriented events • conferences like KeenCon • events working more with locals • events with cases studies and use cases • events where you could easily seek help from Keen team members • classes and workshops like the Effective Communication workshop